Improvement in skirt-supporters



UNITED STATES PATENT Qrrron.

CLARA P. CLARK, or WAKEFIELD, M ssAcHUsETTs.

IMPROVEMENT IN SKIRT-SUPPORTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 164,905, dated June 29,1875; application filed December 1, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLARA P. CLARK, of Wakefield, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvementsin Skirt-Supporters, of which the following is a specification:

Figure l of the accompanying drawings is a rear view of a corset with myimproved skirt-supporters applied. Fig. 2 is a front view, and Fig. 3 isa central transverse vertical section, of my improved skirt-supporter.

The object of the, present invention is to provide a simple, economical,and eflicacions skirt-supporter, that is applicable more particularly toso-called shoulder-strap corsets,

, to relieve the weight of the skirts from the wearers hips 5 and tothis end my invention consists of a metal or other suitableskirtsupporter constructed to be readily applied to a corset and supportthe skirts of the wearer, asI will now proceed to describe and point outin my claim.

In the drawings, A represents my improved skirt-supporter, which isformed of metal or other material suitable for the purpose, bent orotherwise formed at right angles in a ver tical portion, a, from whosebottom projects outwardly a horizontal portion, 1), formed on the frontwith upward-extendin g serrations c.

The vertical portion a is curved on the top and ends, as shown, or maybe otherwise neatly and economically shaped, as desired, and is formedwith holes "d to receive eyelets, which clamp it to thecorset B. Or theplate a may be cut with prongs or clamps that extend through, and arebent to clamp against the inside of the corset. Or the plate a may bearranged in any of the well-known methods, to be readily attached to acorset.

The serrations 0 may be either pointed or rounded, the latter formationbeing preferable, to hold the skirts without tearing or cutting intothem.

The supporters A are clamped, sewed, or otherwise attached, aspmferr'ed, to'a corset at the rear, one or more on each side of acenter, just above the hips or in the most desirable position to sustainthe skirts, Whose upper portion is supported and prevented from slippingor sagging by the horizontal and serrated portions of the plate, so asto relieve the hips from the weight of the skirts, which are thusheld'by a corset supported from the shoulders of the wearer by thestraps e or arm-bands, 87c.

Instead of the serrations c, the plate I) may, if preferred, be flangedupward, to form one or more projections of any desired shape, to servethe required purpose.

Having thus described my improvements, what I claim, and desire to havesecured to me by Letters Patent, is

A skirt-supporter consisting of the vertical serrations a, horizontalportion 1), and vertical portion (0 adapted to be attached to a corset,substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

CLARA P. CLARK.

Witnesses:

CARROLL D. WRIGHT, 0.1 BROWN.

